Example sentences of "or [adv] [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years it has become the practice in leases granted for more than five years or so to contain some machinery for enabling the rent to be reviewed , either continuously or at periodic intervals . |
| 2 | Having once negotiated the hurdle of the initial course it was not so difficult to persuade those who held the money bags to allow me to fly the aircraft every six months or so to maintain some sort of standard in flying up-to-date jet transports . |
| 3 | Or only to prevent prior discovery ? |
| 4 | I WONDER if you 'd agree with me that people are no longer prepared to pay £8 or more to watch top class teams such as Liverpool , Everton or Tranmere . |
| 5 | Configurations need 16Mb or more to achieve acceptable performance . |
| 6 | to cause or knowingly to permit any matter to enter a stream , so as to tend ( either directly or in combination with other matter which is caused or permitted to enter the stream ) to impede the flow of the stream in a way that would lead to a substantial aggravation of pollution due to other causes ; |
| 7 | They can be encouraged and guided to work on the Options activities alone , either for homework or purely to reinforce previous work . |
| 8 | However , the Government do not appear to be currently giving any commitment to provide funds or even to give British Rail the necessary borrowing authority . |
| 9 | Whether dark , milk or white , in rich cakes , delicious desserts , drinks , sauces or even to flavour Mexican meat dishes , chocolate has always been a favourite . |
| 10 | Ewen obviously knew his way , but although Neil gave him room he made no further attempt to break free , or even to reach open water . |
| 11 | However , like the Arab states the PLO was unable to establish sufficient military strength to threaten Israel , or even to obtain diplomatic recognition with the more influential Western powers . |
| 12 | I have already put forward my view that in the foreseeable future there is unlikely to be a sufficiency of common purpose or tradition to create out of a federal Parliament the necessary cohesion for it to control , or even to have much influence over , the unelected central bodies , especially the Commission and the Court of Justice . |
| 13 | If any party has failed to win 5.0% of this , or alternatively to win three constituency seats , it is eliminated from further consideration . |
| 14 | RB 477E for an appointment or simply to request further information . . |
| 15 | But if this is indeed the case , it becomes difficult to explain how significant individuating references can be made to anything that is subject to change ; or indeed to make clear sense of any spatiotemporal order concepts . |
| 16 | The fly on top is on the contrary quite agitated , jerking tremendously , then convulsively , putting out its left foreleg to whip , or maybe to stroke some sort of reaction out of the fly beneath , which , however , remains so still that it seems dead . |
| 17 | The point is that , unless you have such focuses for new building , you are left with only two alternatives : to force all new building back on to those urban wastelands ; or else to let new housing grow , like fat around a middle-aged belly , on the outskirts of existing villages and country towns . |